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riffraff

Undesirable, disreputable, or vulgar people, often used in a condescending manner. I wouldn't be seen in a place like that, there's a lot of riffraff that hang out around there.
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The pro-government Sabah daily described a regulatory order against Boyner as "a warning to the riff-raff Boyner from the stock exchange".
Anne with her new book Don't Let The Riff-Raff In and her first book, left, Memoirs Of A Nazareth House Girl 070814BOOK_4 DOUG MOODY
They can keep an eye on the riff-raff. Riff-raff like to blab in cyberspace.
He reported that Chris and his co-editors had organised a press launch of issue five of Viz, handing out invitations proclaiming: "No riff-raff ".
Given his startling conclusion, however, he opened the door to another avenue to disarmament of us riff-raff: Simply repeal the Second, as we once did the 18th.
As for the nuclear club, I am all for keeping out the riff-raff
Although chances are slim the riff-raff down at their favorite pool hall will be impressed, serious students of differential geometry will find this one of the more accessible ways of describing the geodesic flow on manifold with boundary, and its relation to billiards in classical mechanics and geometrical optics.
Sk8 Coach is ready to clean up the pro riff-raff and give some life-lessons along the way
What better way to keep the riff-raff in its place than to kill both by abolishing all but feudal energy sources?"
In typical combative style, the tycoon refused to back down in the face of the ramblers' campaign and heaped abuse on them, using epithets like 'riff-raff', 'perverts', 'flashers', 'the dirty mac brigade' and 'the great unwashed'.
"Allah shall make the Moslem rule over the Jew, we will blow them up in Hadera, we will blow them up in Tel-Aviv and in Netanya in the righteousness of Allah against this riff-raff, we will fight against them and rule over them until the Jew will hide behind the trees and stones and the tree and stone will say: 'Moslem!
They're not riff-raff, but they're people of, well, misplaced virtue.
With a script by Bill Jesse, based on his own experiences on building sites, Riff-Raff follows the fortunes of Stevie (Robert Carlyle), a young laborer from Glasgow, as he takes his place amid a crew of similarly displaced lumpenproletarians.
I'm all for a bargain but this is quite a nice road and if you charge a pound a drink you're going to get a lot of riff-raff."
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